Alex WellersteinVerified account

Most of the places where I've seen documents that might raise questions, the person in question was long since dead, as aside.

Which gets into the very tricky legal/ethical question of whether people have privacy rights after death.

Thinking about it: I've only "redacted" myself for privacy two times. One was clearly medical information of a private individual.

The other was someone who was alive, had done something that was nationally noteworthy as a child, but was largely unknown today.

In the latter case, the person was alive (and somewhat notable today), but did not want to be easily identified as the child in question.

So, while I still talked about the child in my dissertation, and cited the research (it was notable),

I didn't go out of my way to identify the child, much less link them up with their adult identity.